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Report on China will be given by Dr. James Endicott, Canadian
Peace Congress chairman, at a public rally at the Auditorium, Den-

man Street, on Friday, June 27 at 8 p.m.

Dr. Endicott is pictured

here with his wife, Mary, on their return from China recently, ,

Continued from page |

Public opinion can be
decisive, says Endicott

placent, in the face of the crisis
over Germany, of the Koje
events and the stall in the truce
talks, of the germ war menace,
that would be an invitation to
war. :

(Dr. Endicott will be in this
province next week to address
a public rally to be held at Van-
couver’s Denman Street Audit-

orium next Friday, June 27, He.

will also speak in Eagles’ Hall,
Nanaimo, on Sunday, June 29,
and in Victoria on June 30.)

“Let me urgently appeal to
every Canadian concerned about
peace to speak up this summer.
Let me appeal that this summer
be the occasion for supporters of
the Peace Congress to play once
again an honorable part in meet-
ing the present situation.”

Dr, Endicott said the recent
national] conference had offered
‘to all Canadians a means of
finding new strengthened unity
for peace.

_ “That means the circulation of
the Canadian Peace Pledge. Be-
cause this pledge represents the
harmony of the many different
views expressed at the confer-
ence, it will in all likelihood
meet the support of majority
opinion in Canada in one form

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or another before the summer is
out. We in the Canadian Peace
Congress will do our utmost to
circulate the pledge everywhere.

“The people are seriously con-
cerned over the division and re-
militarization of Germany and
the idea is expressed on all sides.
that the four powers must meet
to establish a united Germany as
a base for peace instead of a
divided Germany that will make
Europe a new Korea, Our gov-
ernment must pay heed to this
opinion.

“The frightful events at Koje,
and the government’s protest at
the despatch of Canadian troops
there without consultation, have
dramatized the need to settle the
truce talks. The prisoner-of-war
question is the only outstanding
difference. The basis for settling
this is already established in in-
ternational law through the Gen-
eva Convention of 1949.

“June 25, 1952,.second anni-
versary of the tragic Korean war,
can be most fittingly marked by
a successful public insistence
that the prisoner-of-war dispute
be settled according to interna-
tional law and thus the fighting
in Korea can be stopped.
expression on public opinion is
quite capable of ensuring this.”

the SHORT of itis...

Vancouver, B.C.

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Financial Pos

t ser ibe

bares operators’ plot —

Under the Coalition regime led by Premier Byron Johnson, a commission was set up as #
result of public pressure, to consider revision of the ICA Act.
at the seams, Johnson’s Liberal government, at the pre-election session, refused to deal with th!
commission’s recommendations for changing the act. But in the shaky position the Liberals fi
themselves in today as a result of the elections, Labor Relations Board officials admit that Pp
bility of the LRB prosecuting the IWA for taking illegal strike action “has not even been col

sidered.”’ ;

While. unity of the bosses is floundering following the shellacking take

and Tories, unity of the work-
ers is growing daily. The 36,-
000 strikers, backed ‘by the en-
tire labor movement in this
province, are confident ‘that
they will succeed in crashing
through the “no wage increase”
wall erected by management.

‘Management is embarrassed

by a ‘Ronald Williams byline’

article featured on the front
page of The Financial Post, is-
sue of June 14, which reveals
the bosses anti-labor “united
front” setup.

‘Management has taken a leaf
out of labor’s book: what looks

jike a united front ‘thas -been:

established,” wrote Williams.
“No one talks about it publicly.
‘But privately it’s known ‘that
employers have been consolidat-
ing their position for a show-
down through the ‘Industrial
‘Association of B.C.

“Virtually dormant since the
war, it has now become the
vehicle for management’s unit-
ed front.”

_ In a telegram sent to [Premier
‘Byron Johnson on Wednesday
this :week, Nigel Morgan, LPP

provincial leader, charged the

Industrial Association of B.C.
“plotted to provoke widespread
strikes” and said: “Responsibil-
ity for the present situation
rests entirely on their shoulders.
Wage demands and improved
conditions are justified. The
LPP demands that you, as head
of the caretaker government,
act immediately to compel em-
ployers to reopen negotiations
toward a speedy settlement of
the disputes and the awarding
of ‘wages and conditions in ac-
cordance with workers’ needs.”

At Pacific Tribune press time
the cabinet was meeting in a
secret session to discuss the
spreading strike (movement
which involves some 36,000
strikers and has idled another
10,000 men who refuse to cross
picket lines.

’ .B.C, Federation of Labor w ll
hold a special executive meeting

_of affiliated unions this Sunday,

June 22, at 10 a.m. in Pender
Auditorium, “to coordinate un-
ion action against the attack of
big business.”’

Carpenters held a special
‘meeting Thursday at their strike
headquarters, .828 Hast Hast-
ings, to discuss next move in
their spreading strike, All major
construction jobs in the Greater

_ Vancouver.area are now shut

down,

Canada Day issue
coming next ‘week

The Pacific Tribune is pub-
lishing a special Canada Day
edition next week, How
many copies will we print? That
depends on how many copies are
ordered in advance by individu-

~ als and press clubs. Deadline for

orders is noon, Tuesday, June
24, so rush in your bundle or-
ders, :

;

When the Coalition split apatl

nat the polls by Liberals

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Editorial

The people repudiate :

- cold war policies

Ee Liberal and Tory wiseacres who masterminded the alter”
native voting fiasco of June 12 are decidedly unhappy:
Nemesis, in the form of an indignant and disgusted electorate,
has overtaken them. The first count showed the Tories prac
tically wiped out, with the ‘Liberals hanging onto the ropes
and hoping that second and third choice votes will restore,
some small measure, their lost \political power and fortunes.
The old-line Tory and Liberal gang thought they had
everything fixed for a sure victory: a trick balloting system,
designed primarily to confuse the electorate and keep the
preponderance of votes within reach of the partisan “family
compact’; a padded voters’ list in which living, absent 2!

dead voters had equal rights to vote for the Tory and Liberal

so

status quo; and an unlimited flow of election slush funds.
Despite all these safeguards, the political henchmen of
- monopoly capital in B/C, took their worst political 'trouncing
since party government was instituted in this province in 1903.
A straight ballot unquestionably would have replaced the
Liberals and ‘their Conservative alternative with a OCF gov
ernment on June 12. Nevertheless, and despite the secretin® —
y 3 for a second count, 4

away of the ballot boxes until Jul

CF majority can still result.

we are awaiting the final results, this

* .

is a good ‘time

to ask both Liberals and Conservatives to give ‘the electol”
ate an accounting of the sources of their campaign funds.
rough computation, based on newspaper advertising space
radio time, and “Liberal Front” advertising (as, !for instance
the “Forward B.C. Committee” brochures) could conceivab!
place the figure of Liberal spending at not less than a quartel

of a million dollars.

(An ‘answer to the question as to wh?

provided their slush funds might serve to further acquaint
the electorate with the big business interests who really ru?
B.C. when tthe Liberals and Tories are at ‘the helm.

T= gains made (by Social (Credit can only be a matter of grav@
concern to all progressive people.. The tie-in of Soci#!
Credit with the most demagogic and reactionary sections of
Toryism are too well known to require repeating ‘here.
subservience ‘of the Social Credit government of ‘Alberta t?
the Yankee war trusts is on a par with Liberal and Tory “giv®

away” policies in ‘B/C.

While thousands of people voted for Social Credit, belie¥’
»ing in all good faith that they were voting for “a change’/
from the old-line Tory and Liberal setup, the greater part 0
its support comes from Tory and ‘Liberal “rebels” who hav@
lost faith in their traditional political organizations in face of
new currents sweeping the country. — \
The neo-fascist philosophy of Social ‘Credit requires 4
much greater amount of study and examination that most
people could give it during the election campaign. Now that

the danger is on our doorstep, as a legacy of Tory and Li

maladministration, it merits much more attention ‘by the ple

than ‘has been given to date.

*

THE Pacific Tribune welcomes the initial victory of the peop!’

of the province, scored on June 12. ‘Despite the calcula

the

uncertainty and confusion planned ‘by Liberals and Tories, “”

overwhelming vote against these war parties of monopoly
capital is a mighty augury for a new deal for B.C., in which

policies leading to peace, an end to the suicidal armame? 1
race, and extended markets for B:C. can now replace
and Tory policies which lead directly toward economic cris
mass unemployment, restriction of the people’s rights, and wat
The ‘howl that is already going up from the editorial sactums

- of the daily press that the OCF will be “a minority gove
ment” must not deter 'the CCF or the electorate to strike
for bold policies leading ‘to greater social security and prog™ ont
‘Liberal and Social Credit obstruction of a CCF gov

out

ra

ernm

can be taken for granted, but with the electorate solidly.
hind the CCF for the promotion of ‘progressive legislatio®
the door can ‘be firmly closed against any Liberal or To
comeback, or a Social ‘Credit victory.
With tens of thousands of British ‘Columbia’s voters Be:
are hoping that on July 3 the Liberals will be finally peer

out—and with them their policies which spell disaster

this province.

Res

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